James Barbour - Finally Confesses to Child Molestation

Fischetti has a case before the state Court of Appeals seeking permission to publish the victim's name in ads that ask men to report whether she ever filed false sex abuse charges against them.

But he confessed it was true!!!!

Broadway "Beast" James Barbour was unmasked Thursday as a liar and a child molester - while his victim and his wife looked on.

Barbour, who once played the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast," pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to two counts of endangering the welfare of a child - 13 months after he called his accuser a conniving gold digger.

As the now 21-year-old victim sat just a few rows away from the actor's wife, Barbour quietly admitted he forced the then-teenage girl to touch him.

When Justice Micki Scherer asked Barbour if he was aware of the aspiring actress' age at the time, he replied, "Yes, 15."

Barbour admitted luring the victim to his apartment by promising to introduce her to theatrical producers - and then engaging in oral sex with her.

It was a humiliating admission by the 41-year-old actor, who in December 2006 said through his lawyer the aspiring actress leveled the charges against him after learning he had inherited a large sum of money.

"She left NYU, she's working in a bakery, she's completely out of money," his lawyer Ronald Fischetti had claimed. "The motivation has to be because he's coming into money, and because he's becoming a Broadway star."

Prosecutors produced a secretly recorded tape in which Barbour referred to himself as "unethical." They also revealed that another woman has accused Barbour of sexually assaulting her in California when she was just 13.

Now Barbour is set to play a new role - as a jail inmate - when he is sentenced on Feb. 29. He faces 60 days in prison and three years' probation.

While Barbour will not have to register as a sex offender, he has to steer clear of all contact with underage kids for three years. One condition of probation is he has to complete a sex-offender treatment program and give cops access to his computer files.

Dressed in a gray suit, Barbour admitted first groping the actress in July 2001 in his dressing room at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where he was performing in "Jane Eyre."

Leaving the courtroom with his wife on his arm, Barbour, who lives in California, said only, "We're just happy to have it behind us."

Meanwhile, Fischetti has a case before the state Court of Appeals seeking permission to publish the victim's name in ads that ask men to report whether she ever filed false sex abuse charges against them.

But he confessed it was true!!!!